Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
JERRY GARCIAThe world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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